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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have text file like below:
a.txt
Server=abc
Run=1
Time=120.123
Tables=10
Sessions=16
Time=380.123
Version=1.1
Jobs=5
Server=abc
Run=2
Time=160.123
Tables=15
Sessions=16
Time=400.258
Version=2.0 (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sol_nov
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
My text file looks like below
.
.
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abcdefghi
jklmnop
$Bad_ptrq_GTS=rcrd_ip.txt
$Bad_abcd_REJ=rcrd_op.txt
ghijklm
$Bad_abcd_TYHS=rcrd_op.txt
abcgd
abcdefghi
jklmnop
$Bad_ptrq_GTS=rcrd_ip.txt (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: machomaddy
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file which requires modification via a shell script.
Need to do the following: 0. take input from user for new text. 1. search for a keyword in the file. 2. replace the line next to this to this keyword with user supplied input.
for e.g., my file has the following text:
(some... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: chingupt
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
What is the best way (bash/awk/sed?) to read in two text files and do a keyword search/replace?
file1.txt:
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Seattle
Dallas
file2.txt:
I love Los Angeles.
Coming to Dallas was the right choice.
San Francisco is fun.
Go to Seattle in the summer.
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: pxalpine
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Ive spent ages trying to find an explanation for how to do this on the web, but now feel like I'm :wall:
I would like to change each occurence (there are many within my script) of the following:
to
in Vim. I know how to search and replace when it is just single lines... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: blueade7
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello
I need to search for a mult-line strngs(with spaces in between and qoted) in a file1 and replace that text with Fixed string globally in file1. The strng to search for is in file2.
The file is big with some 20K records. so speed and effciency is required
file1: (where srch & rplc... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Hiano
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am very new to Linux and am trying to find a way for following problem.
I have a number of files in a folder as Export000.dat, Export001.dat ..and so on.
Each file has a string field 'Absolute velocity'. I want it to be replaced by 'Pixel shift' in all the files. I tried something like... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: chirag.joshi
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
There appears to be several threads that touch on what I'm trying to do, but nothing quite generic enough.
What I need to do is search through many (poorly coded) HTML files and make changes. The catch is that my search string may be on one line or may be on several lines.
For example there... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: bisbell
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I was google searching and found
Perl as a command line utility tool
This almost solves my problem:
find . | xargs perl -p -i.old -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g'
I think this would create a new file for every file in my directory tree. Most of my files will not contain oldstring and I... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: siegfried
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a file that I need to be able to find a pattern match on a line, search that line for a text pattern, and replace that text.
An example of 4 lines in my file is:
1. MatchText_randomNumberOfText moreData ReplaceMe moreData
2. MatchText_randomNumberOfText moreData moreData... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Crypto
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